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Monday, January 28, 2019

A Rising Chorus Urges Journalists To Get Off Social Media. Jeff Jarvis Dissents by Artsjournal

“When journalists delete, dismiss, or disengage from Twitter or Facebook or YouTube or Instagram or Reddit or blogs, they turn their backs on the people who finally " like …

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Man Wanders Into A Moscow Museum, Takes Painting Off Wall And Casually Walks Out by Artsjournal

The work, titled "Ai Petri, Crimea" and painted by Arkhip Kuindzhi in 1908, had been insured for $182,000, according to a spokeswoman for the museum. – The New York Times

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Sunday, January 27, 2019

Question: A New Weekly AJ Highlights Newsletter? by Artsjournal

I’d like to ask for your help. Our weekly ArtsJournal newsletter lists all the stories we collect each week on the website. It’s a long list – about 140 stories each week. …

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Can Immersive Experiences Be Used To Make Art More Inclusive? by Artsjournal

This talk by the founders of of MeowWolf explains how giving participants the ability to create their own experiences in a virtual world is a powerful way to make art more accessible, meanin…

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Music, Health and Wellbeing: Exploring Music for Health Equity and Social Justice by Artsjournal

An exploration of “whether music can contribute to health equity and social justice, by enhancing positive Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), and alleviating negatives ones.  Twe…

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Rubin Foundation Announces 2019 Grants In Art And Social Justice by Artsjournal

“This year's cohort includes smaller organizations that are at the forefront of using cultural production to address contemporary issues such as LGBTQ rights, distributive justice, cou…

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Thinking About Martial Arts, The Arts, Science And Social Justice Programs by Artsjournal

“With a background in marine biology, Mike Cermak has traveled to places including the central Pacific and the Caribbean. But he still felt the need to answer bigger questions about th…

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Friday, January 25, 2019

Buzzfeed Lays Off Entire National News Desk, National Security Unit by Artsjournal

BuzzFeed's national news and national security teams broke some major stories on the Trump administration, Russia's use of social media to shift public opinions in the United States, and oth…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]

Director of Marketing and Communications " OPERA America by Artsjournal

OPERA America, the national nonprofit service organization for opera, headquartered at the National Opera Center in midtown New York City, seeks an innovative and collaborative institutional…

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Have The Arts Become A Closed-Loop Self-Reinforcing Echo Chamber? by Artsjournal

Simon Dancey: “The picture now is of a middle-class sector reinforcing its own values in an echo chamber that compounds the structural inequalities of the UK. This self-endorsing close…

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Glamorous Exile by Artsjournal

Vain, Solzhenitsyn was less vain than most dissidents. He had no political deference, but a metaphysical humility had been beaten into him by what he had undergone. Exile was not a "new begi…

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Google Ethicist: Here's How Technology Hijacks Your Mind by Artsjournal

“Western Culture is built around ideals of individual choice and freedom. Millions of us fiercely defend our right to make "free" choices, while we ignore how those choices are manipul…

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Alan Walker's New Chopin Bio " This Year's Best New Book On Music? by Artsjournal

Tim Page: “This is now the best biography of Chopin " meticulous, scholarly and well-told. Whatever the composer's shortcomings as a person, his music grows only more moving.  ̵…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM[SHARE]

Unsealed Docs: Facebook Created Kids Game That Caused Them To Spend Millions by Artsjournal

“Facebook created a system that allowed children to spend tens of millions of dollars through their parents' credit cards and Paypal accounts on games and other goods without their …

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There's Considerable Evidence That Theatre Can Make An Impact In American Justice. Here's How by Artsjournal

“Given that 85 percent of U.S. counties are home to some number of incarcerated individuals, it's likely that most of our nation's theatres are close to at least one correctional facil…

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Artist Activist Group Urges Artists To Withhold Work From Upcoming Whitney Biennial by Artsjournal

“The group, which advocates for sustainable economic relationships between artists and institutions, is urging the artists who will be invited to participate in the 2019 Whitney Bienni…

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Translating Dance Into Lines, NY City Ballet Makes Them Visible by Artsjournal

"Most bodies can't actually do those perfect shapes," he continued. "But it's that pursuit of that ideal, harmonious proportioned line that is our livelihood, our discipline and our practice…

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Inside The World Of Fanatical Dance Fans by Artsjournal

For our money, the most fanatical fans are opera fans. But ballet fans aren’t far behind. "It's wonderful to see the fans at the stage door, but you can be in a vulnerable position. Pe…

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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Netflix Is Dribbling Out Viewer Numbers. Traditional Hollywood Is Pissed by Artsjournal

As Netflix continues to grow, this game of peekaboo has become increasingly irksome to other studios as well as talent agencies, some of which feel that Netflix’s lack of transparency …

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An Attempt To Archive And Access Early Internet Art by Artsjournal

A project called Net Art Anthology, curated by Rhizome, an affiliate of the New Museum, was an attempt to tentatively create a historical understanding of net art. Unveiled online over th…

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What Happened When Oslo Banned Cars by Artsjournal

"There are basically no cars," says Axel Bentsen, CEO of Urban Sharing, the company that runs Oslo City Bike, the local bike-share system. The city's changes are designed, in part, to …

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Ariana Grande And The Complications Of Cultural Appropriation by Artsjournal

“Appropriation remains one of the hardest-to-talk-about phenomena in pop culture, which is, fundamentally, a hodgepodge of widely circulated ideas that originated in specific sub…

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Why You Might Want To Use Paper Maps In The Age Of GPS by Artsjournal

A glance at the research reveals that the paper map still thrives in the digital era, and there are distinct advantages to using print maps. – CityLab

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Pew: One-Third Of Gen Zers Know A Transgender Person by Artsjournal

A full 35 percent of Generation Z say they personally know someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns like "they" and "them,"as compared to a quarter of millennials who said the same. Only …

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The Baltimore Symphony's Contract Extension Agreement Just Expired by Artsjournal

For now, all the drama is in the music. But tensions continue to simmer beneath the surface. The musicians had been operating under a four-month extension of their previous one-year contract…

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What Museums Are Learning From Children's Museums About Engaging People by Artsjournal

"Children's museums have led the way in the museum field regarding play and its positive effects on brain development " and now all types of museums are using play and touch to engage childr…

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Humanity's Cognitive Diversity Is Narrowing. This May Be A Big Problem by Artsjournal

On all continents, even in the world's remotest regions, indigenous people are swapping their distinctive ways of parsing the world for Western, globalised ones. As a result, human cognitive…

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The Internet Broke Journalism… And It Can't Be Fixed by Artsjournal

Clay Shirky back in 2009: "If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?" To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace t…

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Can Journalism Survive (as Recognizable Journalism)? by Artsjournal

Jill Lepore: “There's no shortage of amazing journalists at work, clear-eyed and courageous, broad-minded and brilliant, and no end of fascinating innovation in matters of form, especi…

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Ballet Arizona School Director by Artsjournal

The School of Ballet Arizona trains both pre-professional and avocational dancers. Over 250 career-focused ballet students ranging from age, 4 to 18 receive exceptional training from some of…

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How To Fight Fake News? by Artsjournal

Alan Rusbridger: “My experience is that readers are surprised when journalists can say, "Can you help me? Here's my article. Is it right? Could it be improved? What's missing here? Wha…

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